9. ICIAP 1997: Florence, Italy - Volume 2
Alberto Del Bimbo (Ed.): Image Analysis and Processing, 9th International Conference, ICIAP '97, Florence, Italy, September 17-19, 1997, Proceedings, Volume II. Springer 1997 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-63508-4
Keynote Address
Ramesh Jain: Content-Centric Computing in Visual Systems. 1-13
Session 9: Image Databases

Dionysius P. Huijsmans, Michael S. Lew, Dee Denteneer: Quality Measures for Interactive Image Retrieval with a Performance Evaluation of Two 3x3 Texel-based Methods. 22-29
Alfred M. Bruckstein, Robert J. Holt, Arun N. Netravali: Holographic Image Representations: The Fourier Transform Method. 30-37
Poster Session C: Compression, Hardware & Software, Image Databases, Neural Networks, Object Recognition & Reconstruction
Nicola Zingirian, Pierpaolo Baglietto, Massimo Maresca, Mauro Migliardi: Customizing MPEG Video Compression Algorithms to Specific Application Domains: The Case of Highway Monitoring. 46-53
Bruno Carpentieri: A New Lossless Image Compression Algorithm Based on Arithmetic Coding. 54-61
Luís Teixeira: Analysis of a Two Step MPEG Video System. 62-68
Kazimierz Wiatr: Dedicated Hardware Processors for a Real-Time Image Data Pre-processing Implemented in FPGA Structure. 69-76
Steven Van Assche, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu: Lossless Compression of Pre-press Images Using a Novel Colour Decorrelation Technique. 85-92
Francescomaria Marino, Ettore Stella, Nicola Veneziani, Arcangelo Distante: Real Time Hardware Architecture for Visual Robots Navigation. 93-100
Riccardo Distasi, Michele Nappi, Sergio Vitulano: Speeding Up Fractal Encoding of Images Using a Block Indexing Technique. 101-108
Luís Teixeira, Teresa Andrade: Smoothing of MPEG Multi-program Video Coding for Packet Networks. 117-123
Enrico Vicario, Wen Xue He: Weighted Walkthroughs in Retrieval by Content of Pictorial Data. 132-139
Farzin Mokhtarian, Sadegh Abbasi, Josef Kittler: A New Approach to Computation of Curvature Scale Space Image for Shape Similarity Retrieval. 140-147
Michael S. Lew, Dionysius P. Huijsmans, Dee Denteneer: Optimal Keys for Image Database Indexing. 148-155
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Straccia: The Terminological Image Retrieval Model. 156-163
Soo-Chang Pei, Ching-Min Cheng: Novel Block Truncation Coding of Image Sequences for Limited-Color Display. 164-171
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F. Turco, L. Verzucoli: Image Retrieval by Color Regions. 180-187
Luigi Cinque, Stefano Levialdi, Alessio Malizia, Roberta Mancini: Interactive Model-Based Matching Retrieval. 188-195
Yongduek Seo, Sunghoon Choi, Hyunwoo Kim, Ki-Sang Hong: Where Are the Ball and Players? Soccer Game Analysis with Color Based Tracking and Image Mosaick. 196-203
Carlo Colombo, Alessandro Rizzi, Ivan Genovesi: Histogram Families for Color-Based Retrieval in Image Databases. 204-211
György G. Vass, Mohamed Daoudi, Faouzi Ghorbel: Optimization Methods in Multilayer Classifier Networks for Automatic Control of Lamellibranch Larva Growth. 220-227
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Alexandre M. Reznik: Static and Dynamic Attractors of Auto-associative Neural Networks. 238-245
Leonid I. Timchenko, Yuri F. Kutaev, Maxim A. Grudin, Serge V. Cepornyuk, David M. Harvey, Alexander A. Gertsiy: A Brain-Like Approach to Multistage Hierarchical Image Processing. 246-253
Armando J. Pinho, Luis B. Almeida: Contextual Edge Detection Using a Recurrent Neural Network. 254-261
Seong Ik Cho, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa: A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy in Recovering Shape of Book Surface from Shading. 262-269
Yukio Sato, Tomoyuki Ishikawa, Masaki Otsuki: Reconstruction of 3D Shape and Texture by Active Rangefinding. 270-275
Jinhui Chao, Akira Darasudani, Kenji Minowa: Invariant Object Representation and Recognition Using Lie Algebra of Perceptual Vector Fields. 284-291
Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov: A Fast Approach for Determining of Visibility of 3D Object's Surfaces. 292-299
Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo: Visualizing Parametric Surfaces at Variable Resolution. 308-315
Session 10: Recognition & Reconstruction

Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, William Ward Armstrong, Xiaobo Li: Adaptive Logic Networks for Facial Feature Detection. 332-339
Kent Stråhlén: Exponential Vector Field Tomography. 348-355
Poster Session D: Biomedical Applications, Detection, Control & Surveillance, Inspection, Optical Character Recognition

Xosé Manuel Pardo López, Diego Cabello, J. Heras: A Markov Random Field Model for Bony Tissue Classification. 364-371
Antonio Garrido Carrillo, Nicolas Pérez de la Blanca, Miguel García-Silvente: A New Methodology to Automatically Segment Biomedical Images. 372-379
Thorsten M. Buzug, Jürgen Weese, Cristian Lorenz, Wolfgang Beil: Histogram-Based Image Registration for Digital Subtraction Angiography. 380-387
Hao Jiang, Wilson Tiu, Shinji Yamamoto, Shun-ichi Iisaku: Automatic Recognition of Spicules in Mammograms. 396-403
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Andrea Guerriero: Specialized Environment for Medical Radiological Image Visualization. 404-411
Christopher R. Dance, M. H. Syn, Richard W. Prager, J. P. M. Gosling, Laurence H. Berman, Kevin J. Dalton: Interactive Segmentation of 3D Ultrasound Using Deformable Solid Models and Active Contours. 412-419
Yoshiki Kawata, Keizo Kanazawa, S. Toshioka, Noboru Niki, Hitoshi Satoh, Hironobu Ohmatsu, Kenji Eguchi, Noriyuki Moriyama: Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Lung Cancer Based on Helical CT Images. 420-427
Fernando Bello, Alan C. F. Colchester, S. A. Röll: A Generalized Geometry and Intensity Based Partial Volume Correction for Magnetic Resonance Images. 428-435
C. Bonifazzi, G. Maino, A. Tartari: A Regularization Method for Unfolding the Measured Data of Different X-Ray Spectrometers in Compton Scattering Tomography. 436-444
Simon Vinitski, Tad Iwanaga, Carlos Gonzalez, David G. Andrews, Robert Knobler, John Mack: Fast Tissue Segmentation Based on a 4D Feature Map: Preliminary Results. 445-452
Jukka Kontinen, Juha Röning, Rona M. MacKie: Texture Features in the Classification of Melanocytic Lesions. 453-460
Rachid Sammouda, Noboru Niki, Hiromu Nishitani, S. Nakamura, S. Mori: Segmentation of Sputum Color Image for Lung Cancer Diagnosis Based on Neural Networks. 461-468
Chin-Chuan Han, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Gwo-Jong Yu, Liang-Hua Chen: Fast Face Detection via Morphology-Based Pre-processing. 469-476
Fabián Arrebola, Pelegrín Camacho, Francisco Sandoval Hernández: Generalization of Shifted Fovea Multiresolution Geometries Applied to Object Detection. 477-484
Carlo S. Regazzoni, Andrea Teschioni, Elena Stringa: A Long Term Change Detection Method for Surveillance Applications. 485-492
Patrick Vannoorenberghe, Cina Motamed, Jean-Marc Blosseville, Jack-Gérard Postaire: Automatic Pedestrian Recognition Using Real-time Motion Analysis. 493-500
Makoto Kosugi, Kouji Yamashita: Person Identification System Based on a Trapezoid Pyramid Architecture of a Grey-Level Image. 501-508
Massimo Gregori, Luca Lombardi, M. Savini, A. Scianna: Autonomous Plant Inspection and Anomaly Detection. 509-516
Federico Hahn, Rafael Mota: Nobel Chile Japaleño Sorting Using Structured Laser and Neural Networks Classifiers. 517-523
Tetsuhiro Sumimoto, Kazuoki Kuramoto, Saburo Okada, Hidekazu Miyauchi, Masaaki Imade, Hideki Yamamoto, T. Kunishi: Development of Image Processing Technique for Detection of the Rescue Target in the Marine Casualty. 524-531
Nette Schultz, Jens Michael Carstensen: Bimodal Histogram Transformation Based on Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimates in Univariate Gaussian Mixtures. 532-543
M. Hassan Ghassemian Yazdi: A Robust Structural Fingerprint Restoration. 544-551
Xulio Fernández Hermida, Fernando Martín Rodríguez, José Luis Fernández Lijò, Fidel Pita Sande, Miguel Pérez Iglesias: A System for the Automatic and Real Time Recognition of V.L.P.s (Vehicle Licence Plate). 552-559
Roberto Vaccaro, Silvana G. Dellepiane: Spatial Correlation Features for SAR Images in a Small Sample Size Context. 560-567
Terence Chek Hion Heng, Yoshinori Kuno, Yoshiaki Shirai: Combination of Active Sensing and Sensor Fusion for Collision Avoidance in Mobile Robots. 568-575
Roberto Bozzano, Antonio Siccardi: Underwater Vegetation Detection in High Frequency Sonar Images: A Preliminary Approach. 576-583
Antonella Branca, M. G. Abbate, Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Giovanni Attolico, Arcangelo Distante: Leather Inspection through Singularities Detection Using Wavelet Transforms. 584-591
Giovanni Dimauro, Sebastiano Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, A. Salzo: Zoning Design for Handwritten Numeral Recognition. 592-599
Angelo Chianese, Massimo De Santo, Antonio Picariello: Improving the Use of Contours and Skeletons for Off-Line Cursive Script Segmentation. 600-607
Mehmet Ali Özdil, Fatos T. Yarman-Vural, Nafiz Arica: Optical Character Recognition Without Segmentation. 608-615
Adnan Amin, Mandana Kavianifar: Automatic Recognition of Printed Arabic Text Using Neural Network Classifier. 616-623
Ahmad Fuad Rezaur Rahman, Michael C. Fairhurst: A Novel Pair-Wise Recognition Scheme for Handwritten Characters in the Framework of a Multi-expert Configuration. 624-631
Enrico Del Ninno, Gianluca Nicchiotti, Ennio Ottaviani: A General and Flexible Deskewing Method Based on Generalized Projections. 632-638
Laurence Duffy, Frank Lebourgeois, Hubert Emptoz: Logical Structure Analysis by Typographic Characteristics Extraction. 639-646
Jianying Hu, Amy S. Rosenthal, Michael K. Brown: Combining High-Level Features with Sequential Local Features for On-Line Handwriting Recognition. 647-654
Yoshiki Mizukami, Kazutoshi Koga: Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Using Displacement Extraction Based on Directional Features. 655-662
Session 11: Biomedical Applications
Daniel L. Farkas, Byron T. Ballou, Congwu Du, Gregory W. Fisher, Christopher Lau, Richard M. Levenson: Optical Image Acquisition, Analysis and Processing for Biomedical Applications. 663-671
Phillip Abbott, Michael Braun: Segmentation of Ultrasound Image Data by Two Dimensional Autoregressive Modelling. 672-679
Anke Neumann, Cristian Lorenz: Comparison and Application of Selected Statistical Shape Models in Medical Imaging. 680-687
Rik Van de Walle, Ignace Lemahieu, Eric Achten: Two Motion Detection Algorithms for Projection-Reconstruction Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Theory and Experimental Verification. 688-696
Session 12: Miscellaneous Applications
Noriko Nagata, Toshimasa Dobashi, Yoshitsugu Manabe, Teruo Usami, Seiji Inokuchi: Image Analysis and Synthesis Using Physics-Based Modeling for Pearl Quality Evaluation System. 697-704
Giovanni Garibotto, Carlo Scagliola: Computer Vision and Image Processing in Postal Automation. 705-712
Takayuki Dan Kimura: Adaptive Pen User Interface with Supervised Competitive Learning. 713-718
Special Session on European Projects
Anil C. Kokaram, Simon J. Godsill: Joint Detection, Interpolation, Motion and Parameter Estimation for Image Sequences with Missing Data. 719-726
Massimo Tistarelli, Enrico Grosso, Josef Bigün, C. Sacerdoti, José Santos-Victor, David Vernon: The VIRSBS Project: Visual Intelligent Recognition for Secure Banking Services. 727-734
V. Pahor, G. Rampioni, R. Castagno: The ESPRIT LTR Research Project: "Nonlinear Model-Based Analysis and Description of Images for Multimedia Applications (NOBLESSE)". 735-742
P. C. Smits, Sebastiano B. Serpico: Analysis and Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images for Land-Cover Mapping. 743-748
Goffredo G. Pieroni, Gian Luca Foresti, Vittorio Murino: Integration of Optical and Acoustical Imaging Sensors for Underwater Applications. 749-756
Louahdi Khoudour, Jean-Pierre Deparis, Jean-Luc Bruyelle, F. Caestaing, Didier Aubert, Samia Bouchafa, Sergio A. Velastin, Maria Alicia Vicencio-Silva, M. Wherett: Project CROMATICA. 757-764
Jim Austin, Giorgio Giacinto, I. Kanellopoulos, Ken Lees, Fabio Roli, Gianni Vernazza, G. Wilkinson: The COMPARES Project: COnnectionist Methods for Preprocessing and Analysis of REmote Sensing Data. 765-772
Anil C. Kokaram: Reconstruction of Severely Degraded Image Sequences. 773-780
Massimo Mari, Carlo Dambra, Dmitry Chetverikov, Judit Verestóy, Adam Jozwik, Mariusz Nieniewski, Leszek Chmielewski, Marek Sklodowski, Waldemar Cudny, Martin Lugg: The CRASH Project: Defect Detection and Classification in Ferrite Cores. 781-787



